Gampark's GP2X Wiz handheld now available

We caught a glimpse of GamePark's new Wiz GP2X / GP3X handheld a month or so back, and the homebrew-friendly black-and-red unit is now available. $179 of your American dollars is all it takes to enjoy the 2.8-inch QVGA OLED screen, 533MHz ARM9 processor, 64MB of RAM, 16GB of flash, and 5 hour battery life -- not to mention a Flash 7 player, MPEG4, xViD and DivX compatibility and new games scheduled to hit every month. Dynamism say these'll start shipping on October 8th -- anyone throwing down?

[Thanks, Craig]

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[rayluc723 Posted Aug 27th 2008 6:29AM]

yummy

[dsstrainer Posted Aug 27th 2008 12:12PM]

I'll play the minority and say... genius! In reality, 4 buttons shaped in the diamond shape are basically the same thing as a dpad. you push the top button the same way you'd push the "UP" arrow on the dpad. This also makes it completely dexterous. This makes it completely symmetrical now and I think it makes damn good sense.

I hope there is an on-board holder for the stylus, as the GP2X F200's stylus was both useless and annoying. I hope there will be more usefulness for the stylus this time around.

I too am not happy with the connector... Why not use USB with host support so we could simply plug in a wireless usb network adapter and get wifi on this b!tch.

[hey Posted Aug 27th 2008 6:00PM]

The stylus does appear to slot into the bottom of the machine.

[Some Guy Posted Sep 3rd 2008 9:20PM]

they canned the 2-dpad thing.

[hey Posted Aug 28th 2008 11:04AM]

Looks like they got a hold of the molds for the old iPod earbuds.

[Extinction Posted Aug 30th 2008 12:22AM]

I'll stick with my more powerful PSP and it's better games.

[Some Guy Posted Sep 3rd 2008 9:21PM]

UPDATE- GPH has decided to drop the 2-dpad design in favor of normal buttons and a 3.5mm headphone jack.
praise jebus.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 23rd 2008 9:16PM]

one word: disappointing, I think i'll stick to..um.. my old GP2X F-100 MK2 or perhaps buy the attractive white F-200 instead

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 23rd 2008 9:23PM]

Heres the catch, if this Wiz is powerful enough to emulate the 3D next generation video game systems like PSX, PS2, PSP and N64, then I might consider to buy it...well as you can see the buttons are laughable..(hey where are the A,B,X,Y buttons?!)

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 23rd 2008 9:27PM]

Heres the catch, if this Wiz is powerful enough to emulate the 3D
next level video game systems like PSX, PS2, PSP and N64, then I
might consider to buy it...well as you can see the buttons are
laughable..(hey where are the A,B,X,Y buttons?!)